Research
Research in the Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine
Our passion and research excellence has fuelled thought-provoking questions like 'how do black holes work?' and 'how can we create hydrogen cheaply?'; extraordinary research into the use of AI for vegetable growers and medical advances in a wide variety of fields from diet to viruses.
Bacterial molecule 'disarms' deadly fungal infections by tricking them into starving
Researchers from the University of Warwick and Monash University have discovered a way to potentially stop one of the world's most dangerous fungal pathogens in its tracks, not by killing it, but by tricking it into switching off its attack mode.
Published in Current Biology, the study is the latest result from the Monash Warwick Alliance's antimicrobial resistance (AMR) research programme, a long-running partnership between the two universities.
Research Technology Platforms
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Advanced Mass Spectrometry Technique Breaks Free from Specialist Hardware
Researchers at the University of Warwick and spin-out company Verdel Instruments have successfully demonstrated two-dimensional mass spectrometry (2DMS) on a benchtop instrument, making this powerful technique practical and affordable for everyday laboratory use.
In their paper, published in Analytical Chemistry, the Verdel/Warwick team provides the first demonstration of 2DMS on a commercially available quadrupole time-of-flight (Q-TOF) instrument, using an upgrade kit. They call this Q-2DMS and the paper shows how it can be used to obtain high-resolution tandem mass spectrometry data from complex mixtures without the need for chromatographic separation or mass filtering.
Research Centres
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Warwick Researchers Power AI-driven Pest Monitoring for UK Vegetable Growers
Researchers at the University of Warwick are helping to develop an artificial intelligence-powered pest monitoring system that enables UK vegetable growers to detect damaging insect pests earlier.
TRACER-Pest is a new collaborative project bringing together growers, agronomists, AI specialists, and industry to develop automated pest monitoring for onion and brassica crops. The project aims to provide growers with near real-time information about pest pressure, allowing more informed decisions about when intervention is genuinely needed, reducing unnecessary crop protection treatments and improving the sustainability of commercial crop production.
Research Collaboration
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